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The Rocky Coast: Ecology, Botany & Pattern July 31 - Aug 6 Instructor: Jerry Jenkins Location: Eagle Hill Institute, Steuben, Me The course is about Atlantic coastal headlands, the plants that occur there, and the processes that shape them both. Including, among others, macroalgae, mosses, and vascular plants; bars, beaches, berms, flats, and spits; barrens, bogs, heaths, marshes, meadows, and woods; and currents, seeps, streams, tides, and waves. The focus will be on what species occur, and what they require; what physical processes regulate their distribution, and how accurately we can predict and draw the patterns that result. Study areas will be Dyer Point and Petit Manan Point. Both are near Eagle Hill, and both excellent and very beautiful exemplars of the rocky coastal headlands that begin at Cape Ann and extend east and north to the Gaspé and beyond. Taught largely graphically and nondidactically, using photo identification charts, drawings, and maps. Days are organized around laboratory and field problems, discussions, and presentations. Lots of practice in observation and identification. Lots of sun, water, talk, and collaboration. Some fascinating problems and, in the distance at least, perhaps a few hints to the answers. About the instructor Jerry Jenkins ([email protected]) was trained in physics and philosophy and has worked as a botanist and ecologist for 45 years. He is the director of the White Creek Field School and of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Northern Forest Atlas Project. Much of his recent work has been on graphic presentations of geography and ecology. He won the American Association of University Press’s book design award for his Adirondack Atlas, the Ecological Society of America’s Cooper Award in geobotany for the Harvard Forest Flora, the Adirondack Council’s Newkirk Award for Climate Change in the Adirondacks, and the Adirondack Museum’s Hochschild Award for lifetime achievement. For general information, go to http://eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/natural-history-seminars.shtml For course calendar and course descriptions, go to http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/nhs-calendar.shtml For application information and cost breakdown, go to http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/general/application-info.shtml For more information, contact [email protected], 207-546-2821 x 1
